Principal Works
Khadzi Abrek [Hadji the Blood Outcast] (poetry) 1835
*“Na smert' Pushkina” [“The Death of Pushkin”] (poetry) 1837
Pesnya pro tsarya Ivana Vasil'evicha, molodogo oprichnika i udalogo kuptsa Kalashnikova [A Song of Tzar Ivan Vasiljevich, His Young Life-Guardsman, and the Valiant Merchant Kaláshnikov] (poetry) 1838
Tambovskaya kaznacheysha [The Tambov Treasurer's Wife] (poetry) 1838
Geroi nashego vremeni [The Hero of Our Days; also published as Sketches of Russian Life in the Caucasus, A Hero of Our Own Time, and as A Hero of Our Time] (novel) 1840
Stikhotvoreninya (poetry) 1840
Skazka dlya detey [A Fairytale for Children] (poetry) 1842
Socheninya. 2 vols. (poetry, essays, and drama) 1847
Demon [The Demon] (poetry) 1856
Demon. Angelj. Rusalka. Pisnia pro Kalashnikova. Mtsyri. Borodino. Duma. (poetry) 1874
Mtsyri [The Circassian Boy; also published as The Novice] (poetry) 1875
†Ionsekia drama M. O. Lermontova (drama) 1880
Sashka (poetry) 1882
Maskarad [Masquerade] (drama) 1891
The Angel (poetry) 1895
Poems of Michael Lermontov (poetry) 1917
Two Brothers (drama) 1933
Sobranie sočinenij v četyrex tomax. 4 vols. (poetry, essays, and drama) 1957-58
The Demon, and Other Poems (poetry) 1965
A Lermontov Reader (poetry and essays) 1965
Selected Poetry (poetry) 1965
*Handwritten copies of the poem were distributed in 1837. It first appeared in print in 1856, in Herzen's Polar Star, published in London. Two years later the poem was printed in Russia. This work is also known as “Smert' poeta” (“Death of the Poet”).
†This work includes the dramas Ispantsy, Menschen und Leidenschaften, Strannji cheloveka, and Dva brata.
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